Penthouse Magazine Becomes Activist
By Loise Neville
Will a cancer cure that costs the patient only $3.00 a week be permitted
to compete with thou-sand-dollar cancer cures? Bob Guccione, publisher of
Penthouse magazine, plans to bring suit against the National Cancer Institute
(NCI), charging deliberate sabotage of the tests that NCI conducted of the
drug hydrazine sulfate that cured his wife, Kathy Keeton, publisher of Omni
magazine, of terminal cancer. The Government Accounting Office (GAO), chief
investigating organization for Congress, will be charged with deliberate
collusion for issuing a false report of its nine-month investigation of
the drug.
On "Coast to Coast AM," popular late-night talk show, Guccione
declared that he had followed the GAO tests daily and talked to those conducting
the tests. All assured him of the efficacy of hydrazine sulfate; yet when
the test results were published, it was declared a non cancer cure, contrary
to what all participants had told him.
Guccione charges that the 19 people tested were deliberately given alcohol,
barbiturates, and sleeping pills, though these were known to destroy the
effect of hydrazine sulfate and were specifically not in the protocols for
testing this drug. Most of those so tested, he said, died unnecessarily
because the NCI did not want an inexpensive cancer cure on the market that
competed with the expensive traditional treatments, chemotherapy and radiation.
He believes that the GAO was persuaded to match its findings with those
of the NCI.
Guccione and Kathy Keeton had for 10 years been pushing alternative cancer
cures in their publications. In early September, Kathy Keeton was also interviewed
on "Coast to Coast." Following is the strange story she told:
In 1995 she visited her doctor for a health checkup and was told she was
in excellent health. She had passed all the tests with flying colors. The
nurse told her she wished that she herself were in such excellent health,
naming especially the condition of Kathy's blood. Six weeks later, after
some digestive problems took her to the doctor, Kathy was told she had cancer
throughout her whole body and had only three to six weeks to live!
"I don't understand how it happened," she said. "I had always
been in excellent health, never been sick, had done everything one is told
to do to avoid cancer."
Because of her knowledge of hydrazine sulfate, Kathy refused chemotherapy
and radiation therapy and over the strenuous objections of the doctors chose
hydrazine sulfate. In ten weeks a cat scan revealed that her worst tumors
had simply "melted away" as had some of the others.
Over a period of time, when all tumors had disappeared except one on the
duodenum at the entrance to her bowel, she was persuaded to have a light
radium treatment, 1/3 the usual strength, on this remaining tumor. Instead
of the light radium treatment ordered, however, she was given a heavy radium
dose which sent her to the hospital in great pain, requiring intravenous
feeding and heavy pain killers to which she became addicted. She had to
spend many months overcoming the addiction.
Although it was a happy and triumphant Kathy Keeton who was interviewed
on "Coast to Coast" and who looked forward to the lawsuit against
the NCI and the GAO, in less than two weeks she was dead! The scar left
by the radium treatment had somehow grown and was obstructing her bowels.
What one might consider a relatively simple operation to remove the scar
resulted in her death. She bled to death on the operating table. Doctors
claimed they could not stop the bleeding because she had not enough platelets
in her blood to cause it to coagulate.
Jeffrey Robbins Enters the Case
Jeffrey Robbins is the most powerful govern-ment investigator in the U.S.
As chief counsel of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, he has power
over all other government agencies or government persons. He has the power
to bring suit against even the President of the United States. In short,
he is the biggest honcho of all the big legal honchos. In his interview
with "Coast to Coast," Bob Guccione announced that Jeffrey Robbins,
having read about the deliberate sabotage of hydrazine sulfate tests and
the collusion of the GAO and checked the facts himself, has signed on personally
as one of the lawyers on the team that will bring suit against these two
government agencies.
On October 15, 1997, he sent a seven-page letter to the GAO charging that
their report on hydrazine sulfate was plainly absurd and extremely misleading.
He charged them with collusion with the NCI. Nevertheless the GAO did not
rescind its report.
funds they desperately need. Prevention initiatives, including after-school
programs and mentors, have been proven to reduce youth delinquency. And
interventions for children at risk-such as parent training and graduation
incentives-have been shown to reduce serious crimes more efficiently than
incarceration. But S.10 sets aside none of the funds for prevention, only
for drug testing, juvenile records, and incarceration.
CONTACT YOUR SENATOR IMMEDIATELY.
CALL THE U.S. CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD AT 202-224-3121
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